Have you read Robin Hobb?
I always think of Stones, it is my economic action. I know it is played with the skill, and that needs to be taken into account - with the way the game is played.
I know that Black stones are the highest count, red are the middle, and white the least - so we can assume it is three, two, one, in value.
I thought, the game could be played by removing stones from the board, in catchments.
You place stones on the mat, and make squares with one piece missing - and you can remove stones from the purse, by completing a square of the same colour, removing that stone into your own tally, (Not the whole square, the catchment remains in place.)
One could also toggle the colour of the stones; red on black making white, white on black making red, black on black making a space - all those excess stones are placed back in the purse, hidden from view.
I also decided that Black stones are folk, Red are skill users, and White are royalty, and that it is a killing game.
So, the aim of the game is to remove pieces from the board, and the player with the highest tally wins when a colour runs out from the purse.
It also makes sense, if Fitz were to try to solve a puzzle, that the mat would be a map of heroes and historic events, and Fitz would have to use his stones to create a good outcome.
Can someone recite to me all the information from the book, so I can check if I'm right?
Stones
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Re: Stones
Completely confused here
Is this a game from a book

I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul. The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me. The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
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